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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;braincramp, post: 13074, member: 925&quot;]No, use in indirect exchange is a necessary, but not sufficient, quality of money.&nbsp; The recipient of money must also reasonably expect that he may use the money to acquire a broad range of other items or services or satisfy obligations.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hear the desire for a rational and measurable definition of money, but no follow-through in the examples.&nbsp; In addition, we cannot create so rigorous a definition of money - or any other word - that it can be derived from logical processes or subject to empirical testing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Money can be used to buy many things.&nbsp; I can&#039;t buy apples or a car or a shoe shine with stock certificates or pay my electric bill or my taxes with empty soda bottles.&nbsp; There are spurious curiosities out there.&nbsp; Not everything which can be converted to money is money; that is not the test.&nbsp; If it were, everthing would be money.&nbsp;&nbsp; A rose is a buck is a rose?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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